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part of the problem is that the US makes companies pay taxes on money made overseas, even after the company has paid taxes for that money in that country. Canada does not do that. At least that is my understanding.

I hate to break your bubble, but the Muslim word was not the leader in science and technology during the Middle Ages. While true they valued scholarship, so did Europe and Asia. There mathematical advances and scholarship were important and useful, but advances were going on elsewhere as well. The “Dark Ages” were anything but. The term Dark Ages is no longer used in scholarship as it is a term which tells nothing and gives an inaccurate implication to Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.

Wow, you are good Clark. You can tell that a system of balance of powers where each side was poised to respond to any incident—such as the Black Hand, or the Ottoman Empire’s machinations, would never have imploded without the death of Arch Duke Ferdinand and Sophia. And then fascism would never have reared its ugly head in Europe, Japanese imperialism would never have threatened China or the American western allies.

Oh and clearly no one would have tried to have any influence over a bunch of shieks and would be arab warlords in the middle east.